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... feeling which , while it renders me doubly sensitive to criticism , and apprehensive of failure , has rendered me al- most indifferent to success , and careless of praise . I owe four beautiful translations from the Italian , ( which ...
... feeling which , while it renders me doubly sensitive to criticism , and apprehensive of failure , has rendered me al- most indifferent to success , and careless of praise . I owe four beautiful translations from the Italian , ( which ...
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... feelings , the high imaginations , the glorious fancies , the heavenward aspirations , which raised him above the herd of vulgar men -but from the ennobling influence of her he loved ? Through her , the world opened upon him with a ...
... feelings , the high imaginations , the glorious fancies , the heavenward aspirations , which raised him above the herd of vulgar men -but from the ennobling influence of her he loved ? Through her , the world opened upon him with a ...
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... feeling ; their raptures were feigned ; their incense was bought or adulterate . In the brain or in the fancy , one beauty may eclipse another - one coquette may drive out another , and , tricked off in airy verse , they float away ...
... feeling ; their raptures were feigned ; their incense was bought or adulterate . In the brain or in the fancy , one beauty may eclipse another - one coquette may drive out another , and , tricked off in airy verse , they float away ...
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... feeling on which it was founded ; it was cause and effect reacting on each other ; and though their songs exist only in the collections of the antiquarian , and the very language in which they wrote has passed away , and may be ...
... feeling on which it was founded ; it was cause and effect reacting on each other ; and though their songs exist only in the collections of the antiquarian , and the very language in which they wrote has passed away , and may be ...
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... feeling ; and the old poet concludes with characteristic tenderness and simplicity- This was the mede of loving , and guerdon That Medea received of Duke Jason , Right for her truth and for her kindnesse , That loved him better than ...
... feeling ; and the old poet concludes with characteristic tenderness and simplicity- This was the mede of loving , and guerdon That Medea received of Duke Jason , Right for her truth and for her kindnesse , That loved him better than ...
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Page 188 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 502 - Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 253 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know • Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows...
Page 185 - The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath?
Page 268 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 391 - And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Page 188 - ... this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Page 178 - And blesses her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain...
Page 417 - Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Page 428 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day ; To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home.